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Wednesday, 3 July 2013

"For my final project this week I decided I wanted to do lots
of stamping and use as many of my Vintage stamps as possible! Tags are perfect
for this type of crafting and I decided that I would make a screen of tags so
that it would stand up and I could keep it on display".

I’ve used a piece of A3 white card and the Sizzix Tag Die to
cut the tags. When I folded the card I’d got it in my head that they would all
be attached together but I soon realised
that this was never going to work, but thought
I could get round that at a later stage.

For tag #1, I masked off the tag joined to it and then
blended some Limelight and Beach Hut over the tag using a baby wipe. I love
this technique which I was lucky enough to be taught by the very talented Lin
Brown at one of her recent workshops.

After drying the paint with my heat gun I then used Snowflake
with a stencil.

I’ve used the Vintage ID07 for this tag, I love the
expression on the woman’s face ! I also really liked how the stencilling shows
through on her face.

The tags all made I then decided that to link them together
I would used the sentiment from Vintage ID03. As I wanted to separate the words
I masked off parts of the stamp so that I could create some space in between
the lines of text. I stamped it onto a piece of white card that I’d blended
more Fresco Finish over.

Before I started to assemble everything I sponged some
Baltic Blue around the edges of all of the tags to define them a little. I also
used Mini 44 and Snowflake and stamped randomly over all of the tags (you’ll
see this in the final photo).

Thinking that I was about finished I realised I’d not glued
the little round things (sorry I don’t know the official name!) that sit over
the hole at the top of the tag. So, not wanting to try and add cardboard and
make it blend in, I decided to use metal instead. I used an embossing folder
and then coated them with Bora Bora, Inky Pool and then a light sponging of
Little Black Dress.

I mounted all of the tags onto black card and I got round my
problem of them being in two halves by leaving a little flap on one of the
pieces of black card that tucked very neatly inside the other half.

At this point I also decided to use my white Posca pen and
write over the top of the word ‘dream’ on the first tag so that it popped a little
!

I hope you’ve enjoyed today’s project, I’ll be back at the
beginning of August for my last week !

Leandra Says: It's amazing what you can do with some generated backgrounds and black ink, and some masking. Fabulous project, and very striking to boot. Thanks for another great week of inspiration Sue! xx

Gillian Says: Love the continuity of colours, stamped images and theme throughout this "Tag Screen" Sue, so much detail to take in. Thank you for another week of beautiful projects. x

Don't forget if you want to join in with Sue's challenge this week, simply click HERE to link up your creativity.

21 comments:

Sue these tags are just beautiful, I love the colours and the stencilling and stamping and... you get the idea! Sorry I haven't had time to join in (yet, I hope!) this week, have started a new job and it's taking it out of me with all the concentrating!!

Fantastic colours and stamping Sue. I'm a tag fan so you had me from the start. You said you wanted the tags all together but it wouldn't work. Not sure if you are referring to the cutting or the subsequent decorating but if you are using a thick cut die and concertina fold your card so both vertical folds are inside the vertical blades you will end up with as many joined together as you like. Personally I would probably cut them individually and then worked on the colouring cos I am almost certain I would have smudged or got painty fingers on the wrong tag working two and two as you did. A bit of a messy worker me! Since you did the lovely black backing anyway to join your two parts, although having them joined means no danger of the black backing showing on the hill folds. Love it lots.Things are a bit more hectic than usual but I hope to join in the fun this week. Thanks for all your fab projects.

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